Monz's _A Century of New Music in Vienna_

In a message dated 2003:10:03 07:08:35 AM, monz@... writes:

>> > A Century of New Music in Vienna
>> > http://sonic-arts.org\monzo\schoenberg\Vienna1905.htm

[znijp]

>yes ... actually i've been doing a little something to that
>page nearly every day for several months now. it's much more
>comprehensive and a lot of errors have been fixed, as well
>as tons of new graphics and textual content.

Very nice tho' it takes me frikkin' forever to access such a dense page.
And I can't hear mp3s - my box doesn't have a mp3 Player :(

Here is a bit of neologistic musical terminology I came up with:

_Klangenfarbengeräusch_ "tone-colour noise" - related to Arnold Schoenberg's
pantonal _Klangenfarbenmelodie_ but very much more concerned with timbre,
texture and silence (i.e. Taoist and Japanese Zen-influenced music) ... and/or
nonJI/nonET scales.

The German word for "noise" _Geräusch_ is derived from _rauschen_ "the
sound of the wind," related to _Rausch_ "ecstasy, intoxication" hinting at some
of the possible aesthetic, bodily effects of noise in music.

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Hanuman Zhang
http://www.boheme-magazine.net

NATURE LOVES MUSIC:
Scientist Phil Uttley "said the music of a black hole could be called
improv." In "comparison to a specific artist or style, he said the late Greek
composer Iannis Xenakis used flicker noise to randomly generate pieces called
stochastic music. 'You could use the variations in the X-ray output of black
holes to produce just this sort of music.'"
" [ ... ] 'Flicker Noise' - Nature's inaudible rhythms & patterns are "in
everything from heartbeats to climate change. Other astronomers have detected
flicker noise in X-ray outputs and in interplanetary magnetic fields."
"Scientists say music is ubiquitous in Nature (Earth itself) and shows up
in the arrangements of the planets, in seascapes, and even in our
brainwaves." --- SPACE.com

"Any sufficiently advanced music is indistinguishable from noise"
(after Arthur C. Clarke's aphorism that any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguisable from magic.)" - John Chalmers, in email response
to the quote _The Difference between Music and Noise is all in your Head_